Gamkrelidze

While Gamkrelidze and Ivanov have suggested that the Georgian word is borrowed from PIE **weinag-2, I must in all good conscience cite this with double asterisks rather than one because their shoddy evidence not only denies the plausibility of this alleged stem at the Proto-Indo-European stage, but it also makes it unlikely that *wenaq- is anything older than dialectal Kartvelian, restricted instead to the Georgian-Zan subset.

The Etruscan vineyard has longer vines than I thought 2009

While Gamkrelidze and Ivanov have suggested that the Georgian word is borrowed from PIE **weinag-2, I must in all good conscience cite this with double asterisks rather than one because their shoddy evidence not only denies the plausibility of this alleged stem at the Proto-Indo-European stage, but it also makes it unlikely that *wenaq- is anything older than dialectal Kartvelian, restricted instead to the Georgian-Zan subset.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

The graphic above is not meant to endorse in any way the "Out-of-Anatolia" fringe hypothesis promoted by Gamkrelidze and Ivanov, which is in my view assuredly wrong.

Archive 2008-03-01 2008

The graphic above is not meant to endorse in any way the "Out-of-Anatolia" fringe hypothesis promoted by Gamkrelidze and Ivanov, which is in my view assuredly wrong.

Proto-Semitic as a second language 2008

The matter of where this contact occurred continues to be a senseless debate, egged on by sensationalists like Ivanov and Gamkrelidze who attempt desperately to place Indo-European in Anatolia.

Semitic and IE in the Neolithic: How intensive was the language contact? 2008

The matter of where this contact occurred continues to be a senseless debate, egged on by sensationalists like Ivanov and Gamkrelidze who attempt desperately to place Indo-European in Anatolia.

Archive 2008-03-01 2008

I am, as you probably know, skeptical of attempts to connect IE to other language families, but am always willing to examine the evidence; I'll have to see if the NYPL has Gamkrelidze and Ivanov so I can take a look.

languagehat.com: EYAS. 2004

Since long range relationships always seem to arouse the comment gods around here, I thought that I would pass this on, especially since I just got my copy of Gamkrelidze and Ivanov _Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans_ today because of the high spending ways of the Japanese ministry of education, thank you very much. and your citation of *sed- got me going.

languagehat.com: EYAS. 2004

Gamkrelidze yesterday said he believes the conversation was recorded not by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), as Georgian officials have claimed, but by its Georgian counterpart.

Spero News author unknown 2010

Gamkrelidze yesterday said he believes the conversation was recorded not by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), as Georgian officials have claimed, but by its Georgian counterpart.

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2010